On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:46 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:24 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: > > Dne 13.10.2009 22:42, Dan Winship napsal(a): > > > OMG ITS TEH WINDOWS REGISTRY!!!1!1II|! IF ANY APP WRITES A SINGLE BYTE > > > WRONG THEN ALL OF YOUR APPS WILL BREAK AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO LOG IN > > > ANY MORE > > > > +1 :) > > > > People who are not able to learn from history are doomed to live through > > it again. > > oh, puh-leaze. I think we have learned some things in the past 10 years. > > if you bothered to look at GSettings and dconf you'd realize that there > is only one process allowed to write to the database: no application > will ever write to the database - only read operations go through the > library, to avoid contention.
How can we be sure to have only one process writing to the database when: - using NFS home dirs and not sharing displays or machines - using remote X apps over ssh Those were problems with GConf, but at least it didn't have the "everything will break" problem if the above wasn't true. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
